Intelligent Reflecting Surface Configuration Using Adaptive Quantization and Neural Prior

Tomer Fireaizen, Dan Ben-David, Shaked Hadad, Gal Metzer, Nir Kurland, Sima Etkind, Pavel Lifshits, Yair Moshe, Israel Cohen

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Abstract

Intelligent Reflective Surface (IRS) is a promising technology for improving the data transmission rate in hard direct channel conditions. In this paper, we describe our solution to estimate the relevant channels and configure the IRS for efficient wireless communications, as part of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Cup (SP Cup) competition. First, we estimate the wireless channel and then find an IRS configuration that maximizes the rate of that channel. We begin with the provided far-from-optimal IRS configurations and apply an iterative optimization technique based on gradient descent and adaptive quantization. Further optimization is obtained by training a deep generative neural network to find a configuration that maximizes the rate function. Compared to the best provided configurations that provide a weighted average rate of 104.07 Mbit/s, the best configurations we discovered provide a significantly higher average rate of 120.70 Mbit/s. Non-IRS based solution provides an average rate of 4.38 Mbit/s.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages146-151
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780738146720
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2021 - Tel Aviv, Israel
Duration: 1 Nov 20213 Nov 2021

Publication series

Name2021 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems, COMCAS 2021
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityTel Aviv
Period1/11/213/11/21

Keywords

  • Channel estimation
  • IEEE Signal Processing Cup (SP Cup)
  • Intelligent reflective surface (IRS)
  • Neural prior
  • OFDM
  • Passive beamforming
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Instrumentation

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